First I'm posting this here so the current industry guys who read & post here might see it and take up the cause.
This idea has been with me since I SBRed my 1978 10/22 just before Ruger started making .22 cans and then integrally suppressed barrels for the Takedown 10/22s and Chargers.
If folks are willing to buy and wait for stamps for those, why not factory made NFA firearms?
I've fired thousands and thousands of rounds hunting, plinking & killing varmints in the last 41 years w my 10/22 but wish I'd thought of SBRing it before Reagan was elected!
It's much handier as a truck gun now and makes for a very wieldy HD weapon for the recoil shy and already deaf enough.
Class 3 purchases are much less intimidating and costly than they used to be, too.
Producing threaded factory-made SBRs in all rimfire and pistol-caliber carbines in all action types would add a sales niche in this great economy!
I'd love to be able to go down the road to The Outpost Armory and start the clock running on my stamp for a 10- or 12-in. Marlin 1894 in .357/.38 right now.
What do y'all think?